Big Bad World could turn out OK on Comedy Central

You wouldn’t have thought it but it appears as though Blake Harrison could have the most interesting post-Inbetweeners career. His latest move away from the ghost of the gormless Neil is Big Bad World (Comedy Central), in which he plays graduate Ben, a chap with an MA in Norse poetry (900AD to 1100AD) no less.

Having said that, Ben is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so he’s been forced to move back in with his parents in Great Yarmouth, the small-town seaside setting being, thus far, Big Bad World’s biggest drawer.
That and the fact that Ben’s situation, echoed across the land as graduates discover they’re not the hot property in job land they thought they’d be, is right on the zeitgeist.

So far, so promising. Harrison is adept at the whole man-child thing and he’s surrounded by a convincing bunch of slacker, lives-going-nowhere mates, for whom a trip to Chelmsford is the height of excitement. Though how that joke translates to anyone outside the A12 axis is anyone’s guess.